Fic: Never Ever (OUAT)
Fic for onceuponaland bingo fill: Regina-redemption
Never Ever
by Tracy (lunarknightz)
Rating:PG
Spoilers: "We Are Both" for OUAT,
Disclaimer: My super power is that I own nothing of this I write about! Nifty, huh?
Summary: Regina finds redemption.
Their willingness to forgive amazed her.
Once upon a time, she’d been a good person, a young girl in love with a stable boy. She’d wanted to be better than her mother. She wanted to live life on her own terms. Regina had turned to magic in order to get her own way. The magic had come at a price- her soul. It tainted her. Made her parched for power, made others see her as evil. And high on the effects of magic, she hadn’t cared.
The curse was a means to meet an end, the ultimate revenge on her stepdaughter. Good had triumphed evil, as it always annoyingly seemed to do. And Emma had broken the curse and changed Storybrooke forever.
Losing Henry to his birth family- seeing him pal around with his grandfather in his mother’s absence, had made Regina consider leaving magic behind. Henry was the one part of her life that magic hadn’t shadowed. When her mother followed Mary Margaret and Emma back from the Enchanted Forest, Regina had made one last definite decision- using all the power she could to defeat Cora for once and for all. When she had beat down Cora, she threw the spell book away into the fiery portal. Regina was willing to leave the power behind. Her mother had not been, and Cora leapt into the portal, never to be seen again.
Regina had been lost at first, without magic. Slowly but surely, she learned to live again. It was Henry that helped with the healing, as he drew her into the circle of the family he’d reunited. Slowly but surely- Charming, Snow, and even Emma had come around. She began to make friends with others in town, and though there were some people that openly despised her (hello, Whale- but that was to be expected.)- but he did tolerate her, and no longer threatened violence at her person.
As time strode on, she won over the hearts of Storybrooke residents once again. She wasn’t innocent, nor perfect, but the people were willing to forgive her.
There was one person who did not see her as redeemed. One person that hadn’t given her some form of forgiveness. Regina saw that person each time she looked in the mirror. She had yet to forgive herself.
Never Ever
by Tracy (lunarknightz)
Rating:PG
Spoilers: "We Are Both" for OUAT,
Disclaimer: My super power is that I own nothing of this I write about! Nifty, huh?
Summary: Regina finds redemption.
Their willingness to forgive amazed her.
Once upon a time, she’d been a good person, a young girl in love with a stable boy. She’d wanted to be better than her mother. She wanted to live life on her own terms. Regina had turned to magic in order to get her own way. The magic had come at a price- her soul. It tainted her. Made her parched for power, made others see her as evil. And high on the effects of magic, she hadn’t cared.
The curse was a means to meet an end, the ultimate revenge on her stepdaughter. Good had triumphed evil, as it always annoyingly seemed to do. And Emma had broken the curse and changed Storybrooke forever.
Losing Henry to his birth family- seeing him pal around with his grandfather in his mother’s absence, had made Regina consider leaving magic behind. Henry was the one part of her life that magic hadn’t shadowed. When her mother followed Mary Margaret and Emma back from the Enchanted Forest, Regina had made one last definite decision- using all the power she could to defeat Cora for once and for all. When she had beat down Cora, she threw the spell book away into the fiery portal. Regina was willing to leave the power behind. Her mother had not been, and Cora leapt into the portal, never to be seen again.
Regina had been lost at first, without magic. Slowly but surely, she learned to live again. It was Henry that helped with the healing, as he drew her into the circle of the family he’d reunited. Slowly but surely- Charming, Snow, and even Emma had come around. She began to make friends with others in town, and though there were some people that openly despised her (hello, Whale- but that was to be expected.)- but he did tolerate her, and no longer threatened violence at her person.
As time strode on, she won over the hearts of Storybrooke residents once again. She wasn’t innocent, nor perfect, but the people were willing to forgive her.
There was one person who did not see her as redeemed. One person that hadn’t given her some form of forgiveness. Regina saw that person each time she looked in the mirror. She had yet to forgive herself.